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by anaganisk 1942 days ago
Humble doubt: Are they applicable on non-commercial and open source uses too? Can patents prevent that?
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It really depends on your legislation, and also how much you allow yourself to be governed by unjust legislation. For example people like Rhizomatica are building internet / cellphone infrastructure on a free-software stack without (to my knowledge) caring at all about patents (good).

On the other side of the world Freifunk community network in Germany has in i believe illegal activities to protect their users, and have fought up to the supreme court for that. Sorry i can't really provide a source as i don't speak german but it has something to do with secondary liability.

So overall, please never let anyone dictate all the good you should do. Especially not lawmakers and lawyers.

That's probably it. However i'm not from germany and don't speak german so please don't take my word for it.